Biological functions of asparagine synthetase in plants

L Gaufichon, M Reisdorf-Cren, SJ Rothstein… - Plant Science, 2010 - Elsevier
Ammonium is a form of inorganic nitrogen derived from several metabolic pathways, and is
assimilated into glutamine, glutamate, asparagine and carbamoylphosphate. These …

Enzymes utilizing glutamine as an amide donor.

H Zalkin, JL Smith, DL Purich - Adv. Enzymol. Relat. Areas Mol …, 2009 - books.google.com
Enzymes utilizing glutamine as an amide donor. Page 105 ENZYMES UTILIZING
GLUTAMINE AS AN AMIDE DONOR By HOWARD ZALKIN, Professor of Biochemistry …

The mechanism of glutamine-dependent amidotransferases

F Massière, MA Badet-Denisot - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences …, 1998 - Springer
Glutamine-dependent amidotransferases have been known for more than 30 years. The
mechanism by which these enzymes generate ammonia from the glutamine amide nitrogen …

The crystal structure of GMP synthetase reveals a novel catalytic triad and is a structural paradigm for two enzyme families

JJG Tesmer, TJ Klem, ML Deras, VJ Davisson… - Nature structural …, 1996 - nature.com
The crystal structure of GMP synthetase serves as a prototype for two families of metabolic
enzymes. The Class I glutamine amidotransferase domain of GMP synthetase is found in …

Three-Dimensional Structure of Escherichia coli Asparagine Synthetase B:  A Short Journey from Substrate to Product,

TM Larsen, SK Boehlein, SM Schuster… - Biochemistry, 1999 - ACS Publications
Asparagine synthetase B catalyzes the assembly of asparagine from aspartate, Mg2+ ATP,
and glutamine. Here, we describe the three-dimensional structure of the enzyme from …

A metabolic node in action: chorismate-utilizing enzymes in microorganisms

F Dosselaere, J Vanderleyden - Critical reviews in microbiology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
The shikimate pathway has been described as a metabolic tree with many branches that led
to the synthesis of an extensive range of products. This pathway is present only in bacteria …

Cloning and characterization of a 12-gene cluster from Bacillus subtilis encoding nine enzymes for de novo purine nucleotide synthesis.

DJ Ebbole, H Zalkin - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1987 - ASBMB
An approximately 16-kilobase pair region of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome at 55 degrees
containing genes for de novo purine nucleotide synthesis (Piggot, PJ, and Hoch, JA (1985) …

The amidotransferases

H Zalkin - Advances in enzymology and related areas of …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Glutamine amidotransferases are a family of enzymes that utilize the amide of glutamine in
the biosynthesis of amino acids, purine and pyrimidine nucleotides, amino sugars …

Structure of a bacterial pyridoxal 5′-phosphate synthase complex

M Strohmeier, T Raschle… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
Vitamin B6 is an essential metabolic cofactor that has more functions in humans than any
other single nutrient. Its de novo biosynthesis occurs through two mutually exclusive …

Nucleotide sequences and regulational analysis of genes involved in conversion of aniline to catechol in Pseudomonas putida UCC22 (pTDN1)

F Fukumori, CP Saint - Journal of bacteriology, 1997 - Am Soc Microbiol
A 9,233-bp HindIII fragment of the aromatic amine catabolic plasmid pTDN1, isolated from a
derivative of Pseudomonas putida mt-2 (UCC22), confers the ability to degrade aniline on P …